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One Thing: The Annual Photo Book

February 12, 2016 by Jo@CountryLifeExperiment 6 Comments

I’m on a #OneThing bent this year courtesy of BabyMac. A drive to get some of those extra things that I always think about doing when I’m in bed, or driving the car. The week before school went back, it was all about the photo book.

The Photobook

I’ve talked about how we do photobooks before, but after last years’ book (which I finally completed in about November), I wasn’t super happy with the quality of the print. Though the program was super easy to use, the photos turned out very dark. So this year, I bit the bullet and used a new printer (Momento), which meant I had to download their program for putting together photos.

The Photobook-2

Of course that wasn’t the first step. Before I even started putting the photo album together, I needed to wade through the 3000 photos I took last year and choose the ones I wanted. Of course some of the photos I take for the blog, are not really photos I want in my photo album (I just don’t need 3 pics of a first aid kit in the family album). I do have separate folders for blog and family photos, but I still wanted to make sure I had all the photos I wanted.

The Photobook-3

Once I had chosen all the photos, I gave any unprocessed photos a quick clean up using Lightroom, which I use to edit and manage all my photos. When I edit photos, I just making sure the light is correct, the colour balance is good, and the photo is straight. Once this was done, I had to export all of the photos to create jpeg files for printing. With about 650 photos, this took a while.

After all the photos were exported, it was time to start putting the actual book together. I was expecting this to be long and tedious since I hadn’t used Momento’s software before. Turns out it was super easy to use, and I soon got the hang of how to do it. It was just a matter of dragging and dropping the pics into the right spot.

The Photobook-4

I was on the computer for a couple of hours and popped it together, uploaded it (at my parents house with their unlimited internet – super jealous of that), placed the order, and sat back feeling rather pleased with myself.

The book arrived last week, and I was super happy with it. Just to add to my smugness!

If you want to know more about photo books, printers, and different ways you can make them, check out this post from 2015.

Do you make photo year books? Have you made your photo book from last year?

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  1. Sarah says

    February 17, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    Gosh I need to do this, I am years and years behind. The very thought of muddling my way through my slow old computer to go through my photos gives me a headache, let alone actually doing it! How good it would feel to actually get a year done though. And then work my way back through way too many other years.

    The pricing is a bit confusing on the Momento site, what size is yours (if you can remember). I am guessing the regular or the grand? And approximately how many pages did yours take?

    Thanks so much for any help. Love your blog, long time reader but first time commenter 😉

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    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      February 17, 2016 at 8:24 pm

      Mine are regular sized landscape orientation. Mine took over 150 pages, and wasn’t cheap. I googled and found a 30% code which made it a little better. If it’s too hard to go back to old photos, why not just start with last year? Our old photos are not in albums. Thanks for reading 🙂 xxx

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  2. Bek says

    February 16, 2016 at 11:19 am

    I just discovered your blog. I just finished my 2011 and 2012 albums, and am halfway through 2013. I love Momento, it’s exactly the quality I’ve been after. I’m looking forward to trawling your archives.

    Reply
    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      February 16, 2016 at 6:29 pm

      Welcome and thanks for following along.

      Reply
  3. Emma - a simple living journey says

    February 13, 2016 at 7:27 pm

    oh this is a seriously good Idea! Im going to explore this, I suck at printing off photos and making albums. But one family album a year online? Thats do-able.

    xx

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    • Jo@CountryLifeExperiment says

      February 14, 2016 at 10:50 pm

      It really is so easy. It takes so much less time than printing individual pics then sticking them into albums, and the photo albums take up a lot less space. Plus they look better too (in my opinion). All winning in my book!

      Reply

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